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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Department of Geology and 

 Mineralogy. 



The department maintains a teaching collection of rocks and 

 minerals contained in about 1200 drawers and in about 125 linear 

 feet of glass cases. There are also glass and wooden models, speci- 

 mens from mines on the Pacific coast, models of interesting geologic 

 regions, and 3600 slides for microscopic study. These collections are 

 in charge of Andrew C. Lawson, professor of geology and mineralogy. 



UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Museum of Paleontology. 



The paleontological collections are in charge of Professor J. C. 

 Merriam and the staff of the department of paleontology. The 

 museum includes the collections of the geological survey of California, 

 and is rich in types and representative specimens of California fossils, 

 in addition to a large series illustrating the invertebrate paleontology 

 of North America, and a carefully selected series of crinoids from Craw- 

 f ordsville, Indiana . The number of in vertebra te fossils is estimated at 

 150,000, with several hundred type specimens; of vertebrate fossils 

 at 15,000, with about 100 types; of plant fossils at 3000, with about 

 50 types. 



UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. 



STAFF. Director, Joseph Grinnell; Curators, Edmund Heller 

 (mammals), Harry S. Swarth (birds); Assistant curator of mammals, 

 Walter P. Taylor; Preparators, John Rowley (work done by contract) 

 and E. J. Fischer (osteology) ; i janitor, i stenographer, and i helper. 



ZOOLOGY. Fishes, very few; Batrachians, 5oo ; Reptiles, iooo; 

 Birds, 22,ooo, including 40 types and the private collections of 

 Messrs. Grinnell, Swarth, and Morcom, amounting to some 14,000 

 specimens; Mammals, 9000 , including 10 types; Bird eggs and nests, 

 500. Most of this material is in study collections, the space for exhibi- 

 tion being limited. A number of large groups is planned for the near 

 future. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. The museum was inaugurated in 1908 as 

 a department of the university, under the patronage of Miss Annie 

 M. Alexander of Oakland, California. 



FINANCIAL SUPPORT. A fixed sum of $6000 per year, promised by 

 Miss Alexander for a term of years. In addition, Miss Alexander has 

 expended several thousand dollars on exhibition, on securing the mate- 

 rial for groups, and for the mounting of groups, which latter is provided 

 entirely outside of the regular allowance. 



BUILDING. Erected in 1909 at a cost of $15,000, of which $8000 

 was appropriated by the university, and $7000 donated by Miss Alex- 



